The need to assess the status of fire protection after a 5-year period of operation is due primarily to the fact that the service life of flame retardants listed in the technical documentation for the compounds manufacturers install at your own risk. At present there is no methodology for assessing and predicting the life of fire protection of structures, by analogy with GOST 9.401-91 "ESZKD. Paint coating. General requirements and accelerated test methods for resistance to climatic factors. " Predict the life of fire protection, guided by the provisions of this standard is almost impossible. On the one hand we have different criteria for assessing the resistance of coatings and flame retardants, on the other hand – the lack of factual material on the lifetimes of different types of fire protection of structures, their fire-resistance rating for objects in the real world.
It is on comparing the results of accelerated tests for resistance to climatic factors, new paint similar to the familiar (for which there is data and accelerated and environmental tests) is based on the prediction of GOST 9.401-91. The need to assess the status of fire protection, and where possible the establishment of the form applied in other fire-retardant coating of these cases obvious. In practice, as a rule, control is based on visual inspection of coating (presence of gaps, tampering with cover) and check the thickness of the coating, mainly for fire protection structures. In some cases, the acceptance of fire protection facility shall be tested for compliance with the technical documentation used flame retardant requirements of a particular object (the project).